Heat sign veteran Andersen to 10-day contract

Summary of 9 articles · Updated Jan 22, 2013

Miami signed Andersen to a 10-day contract over the weekend, though if all goes well they hope to keep him the rest of the season. He's on a 10-day contract, which means he'll likely be on another 10-day contract after that. Considering Andersen's intense… (more) competitive drive through the years, the Heat isn't overly concerned with Andersen's current form. The veteran forward-center signed a 10-day deal with the Heat on Sunday and worked out with his new club for the first time. That investigation is still ongoing, but Andersen's attorney says he's the victim of an extortion attempt, in which a woman claiming to be 21 sent Andersen photos of herself, then threatened to report him unless he paid her. Oh, that's depressing. Sorry. From 2008 through the end of last season, Andersen’s player efficiency rating hovered in the high teens, his hard-nosed work on the glass and weak-side help defense earning him a place in a deep Denver rotation. The Heat still need to retain the top spot in the conference to hold home-court advantage in all three Eastern playoff rounds, and the fact that the Heat have been destroyed by the second-seeded New York Knicks in two 20-point defeats isn’t lost on the team’s front office.N.B.A.

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Needing a spark in the frontcourt, the Heat signed veteran forward/center Chris Andersen to a 10-day contract on Sunday. The team also resigned rookie Jarvis Varnado to another 10-day deal. Andersen, who averaged 5.3 points and 4.6 rebounds in 32 games …